Lot 176
JOHN MACLAUCHLAN MILNE R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1885-1957) §
IN TUSCANY
£15,120
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale: 08 June 2023 | From 18:00
Description
Signed and dated '30, oil on canvas
Dimensions
Provenance
Provenance:
T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd, Glasgow
Sotheby's Gleneagles, Scottish & Sporting Pictures & Sculpture, 28 August 2002, lot 1092
John Green Fine Art, Glasgow from whom acquired by the present owner
Literature:
Maurice N. Millar, The Missing Colourist: The Search for John Maclauchlan Milne RSA, privately published 2022, repr.col. p.85
(www.themissingcolourist.co.uk)
Footnote
John Maclauchlan Milne painted In Tuscany during the Spring of 1930, where he stayed in the Hotel La Cisterna in San Gimignano. Dundee’s The Evening Telegraph reported on 17 April 1930 that ‘at present [Maclauchlan Milne] is working in the north of Italy’. He began to exhibit his Tuscan works the following year, including at the Royal Scottish Academy, with the Society of Scottish Artists and in his solo exhibition at The Independent Gallery in London in March 1931. This featured Spring-Time, San Gimignano, sold by Lyon & Turnbull on 28 November 2006, which resulted from the same Tuscan excursion. The Evening Telegraph reviewed the exhibition on 4 March 1931 stating: 'Mr Milne spent a considerable time in Italy last year, instead of going, as he usually does, to Provence for the subjects of his landscapes and the result is one or two landscapes executed in North Italy which for composition and colour rank with the best works Mr Milne has produced.'
We are very grateful to Maurice N. Millar, author of The Missing Colourist: The Search for John Maclauchlan Milne RSA, for his research into this painting.
